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The best harness-sdk alternatives

strands-agents/harness-sdk

12 open-source projects share topics or a category with harness-sdk. Each comparison below is drawn from recorded GitHub metadata — language, license, activity and review status. None of them is a judgement about which is better for you.

bytedance organisation mark

deer-flow

bytedance/deer-flow

An open-source long-horizon SuperAgent harness that researches, codes, and creates. With the help of sandboxes, memories, tools, skill, subagents and message gateway, it handles different levels of tasks that could take minutes to hours.

Choose deer-flow if…

  • MIT License suits your use better than Apache License 2.0
  • you want the more widely starred option (84.9k)
  • you specifically need agent or agentic-framework

Shares agentic, ai, ai-agents, harness with harness-sdk.

Pushed yesterday.MIT LicensePython84.9k+454
headroomlabs-ai organisation mark

headroom

headroomlabs-ai/headroom

Compress tool outputs, logs, files, and RAG chunks before they reach the LLM. 20% fewer tokens for coding agents, 60-95% fewer tokens for JSON, same answers. Library, proxy, MCP server.

Choose headroom if…

  • you want something your agent can install directly rather than a library to wire up yourself
  • you want the more widely starred option (78.7k)
  • you specifically need agent or claude-code

Shares ai, anthropic, llm, mcp with harness-sdk.

Pushed yesterday.Apache License 2.0Python78.7k+724
microsoft organisation mark

autogen

microsoft/autogen

A programming framework for agentic AI

Choose autogen if…

  • Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International suits your use better than Apache License 2.0
  • you want the more widely starred option (61.7k)
  • you specifically need agentic-agi or autogen

Shares agentic, agents, ai, llm-agent with harness-sdk.

Pushed 7 days ago.Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 InternationalPython61.7k+104
AstrBotDevs organisation mark

AstrBot

AstrBotDevs/AstrBot

AI Agent Assistant & development framework that integrates lots of IM platforms, LLMs, plugins and AI feature, and can be your openclaw alternative. ✨

Choose AstrBot if…

  • GNU Affero General Public License v3.0 suits your use better than Apache License 2.0
  • you want the more widely starred option (45.8k)
  • you specifically need agent or astrbot

Shares ai, llm, mcp, openai with harness-sdk.

Pushed yesterday.GNU Affero General Public License v3.0Python45.8k+1.7k
openai organisation mark

openai-agents-python

openai/openai-agents-python

A lightweight, powerful framework for multi-agent workflows

Choose openai-agents-python if…

  • MIT License suits your use better than Apache License 2.0
  • you want the more widely starred option (30.5k)
  • you specifically need framework or openai

Shares agents, ai, harness, llm with harness-sdk.

Pushed yesterday.MIT LicensePython30.5k+147
deepset-ai organisation mark

haystack

deepset-ai/haystack

Open-source AI orchestration framework for building context-engineered, production-ready LLM applications. Design modular pipelines and agent workflows with explicit control over retrieval, routing, memory, and generation. Built for scalable agents, RAG, multimodal applications, semantic search, and conversational systems.

Choose haystack if…

  • you want the more widely starred option (26.9k)
  • you specifically need agentic-rag or ai-agents

Shares agent-framework, agentic-ai, agents, ai with harness-sdk.

Pushed yesterday.Apache License 2.0Python26.9k+65
TransformerOptimus organisation mark

SuperAGI

TransformerOptimus/SuperAGI

<⚡️> SuperAGI - A dev-first open source autonomous AI agent framework. Enabling developers to build, manage & run useful autonomous agents quickly and reliably.

Choose SuperAGI if…

  • MIT License suits your use better than Apache License 2.0
  • you want the more widely starred option (17.7k)
  • you specifically need agi or artificial-general-intelligence

Shares agents, ai, autonomous-agents, llm with harness-sdk.

No push in over a year ago.MIT LicensePython17.7k+12
omnigent-ai organisation mark

omnigent

omnigent-ai/omnigent

Omnigent is an open-source AI agent framework and meta-harness: orchestrate Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Pi, and custom agents — swap harnesses without rewriting, enforce policies and sandboxing, and collaborate in real time from any device.

Choose omnigent if…

  • you specifically need agent-governance or agent-orchestration

Shares agent-framework, agents, ai, ai-agents with harness-sdk.

Pushed yesterday.Apache License 2.0Python11.2k+112
RayVentura organisation mark

ShortGPT

RayVentura/ShortGPT

🚀🎬 ShortGPT - Experimental AI framework for youtube shorts / tiktok channel automation

Choose ShortGPT if…

  • MIT License suits your use better than Apache License 2.0
  • you specifically need artificial-intelligence or automation

Shares ai, autonomous-agents, openai, python with harness-sdk.

No push in over a year ago.MIT LicensePython8.1k+23
kyegomez organisation mark

swarms

kyegomez/swarms

The Enterprise-Grade Multi-Agent Orchestration Framework. Website: https://swarms.ai

Choose swarms if…

  • you specifically need agentic-workflow or artificial-intelligence

Shares agentic-ai, agents, ai, multi-agent-systems with harness-sdk.

Pushed yesterday.Apache License 2.0Python7.3k+42
didilili organisation mark

ai-agents-from-zero

didilili/ai-agents-from-zero

🚀 2026 最系统的 AI Agent 速成指南|智能体实战教程 · 完整学习路径 + 实战项目 + 面试题库 · 对标大模型应用开发工程师岗位 · 覆盖LangChain / LangGraph / Coze / Dify / MCP / skills / LLM / RAG / 提示词 · 企业级部署与微调 · 从0到企业级落地 + 从学习到上线项目 + 面试准备一体化

Choose ai-agents-from-zero if…

  • MIT License suits your use better than Apache License 2.0
  • you want something your agent can install directly rather than a library to wire up yourself
  • you specifically need agent or ai-agent

Shares agent-framework, agentic-ai, llm, mcp with harness-sdk.

Pushed 21 days ago.MIT LicensePython5.8k+163
IBM organisation mark

mcp-context-forge

IBM/mcp-context-forge

An AI Gateway, registry, and proxy that sits in front of any MCP, A2A, or REST/gRPC APIs, exposing a unified endpoint with centralized discovery, guardrails and management. Optimizes Agent & Tool calling, and supports plugins.

Choose mcp-context-forge if…

  • you specifically need api-gateway or asyncio

Shares agents, ai, generative-ai, mcp with harness-sdk.

Pushed yesterday.Apache License 2.0Python4.7k+42